Glean for Desktop
About the desktop app
Glean for Desktop brings the power of Glean to your users' Mac and Windows machines, whenever they need it. Users can invoke Glean from any application and type a query to run a search or start a chat conversation with Glean.
Open it from the menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows), or with the quick search shortcut, to start a Glean search:
- Cmd+Shift+J on macOS
- Ctrl+Shift+J on Windows
Download the app
Your users can install the desktop app from their Glean install settings, or download it directly using the links below.
macOS
Windows
App settings
In the app's settings, users can adjust the following:
- Quick search shortcut controls the keyboard shortcut that opens the quick search bar from anywhere on their machine. It's Cmd+Shift+J on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+J on Windows by default, and can be changed to any key combination.
- Hide menu bar icon hides the Glean menu bar icon on macOS when turned on.
- Hide from dock hides the Glean icon from the macOS Dock. If the app is pinned to the Dock, its icon isn't hidden even when this setting is turned on.
- Open quick search results in browser opens search and chat queries from the quick search bar in the default browser rather than the Glean app window, similar to the default Spotlight behavior on macOS.
Important notes
- Glean doesn't search local files, such as content on the user's desktop.
- macOS requires version 10.15 ("Catalina") or later.
- Windows requires Windows 10 or later, on 64-bit (x64) or ARM64.